I am getting the e-mail notification, but it is taking me to the beginning of the thread instead of the last post, again. This happened right after the last upgrade. I think all of my settings have remained the same.

Hi there - just saw your post. You can change the display order of posts in a thread.
Click on User cp (blue tool bar)
Select edit options (left hand side of page)
Scroll down to find Thread display options and then Thread display mode. You can choose "newest first"
Then scroll down to bottom of page and click save changes.